Michigan Department of Corrections photo of Eric Ramsey, whose criminal history includes both assault with intent to cause great bodily harm (2007) and felonious assault (2005).

A 30-year-old Mt. Pleasant man posted to Facebook he was "about to be shot, peace" moments before he was shot and killed by police in Crawford County early Thursday after kidnapping and raping a Central Michigan University student.

Eric Lee Ramsey, 30, who had a lengthy criminal history, died after being shot during a chase with a Crawford County Sheriff's deputy on Old U.S. 127 near Frederic at about 4 a.m. Thursday, police said.

Ramsey forced the woman into her car, a Ford Escape, at gunpoint and forced her to drive south of campus.

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While heading south on South Crawford Road, the woman jumped from the vehicle after Ramsey said he was going to kill her, and ran to a home for help, Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said.

Isabella County Central Dispatch received a call at about 10:05 p.m. from the woman, who said she had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted, the sheriff said.

Police learned that Ramsey took the woman to a home on South Crawford Road, where he bound and raped her, police said.

After putting her back in her car, Ramsey went to a barn area at the site and got two gasoline cans, Mioduszewski said.

Ramsey put the gas cans in the car and began driving, telling the woman he was going to kill her, which prompted her to jump from the car and run to a home for help, the sheriff said.

When she got to the home, the people there let her inside and locked the doors; shortly after that, Ramsey went to the home, doused some siding with gasoline and started it on fire, Mioduszewski said.

Moments later, one of the residents came home and quickly put out the fire, the sheriff said.

Four people were at home at the time, and Ramsey fled the area, the sheriff said.

Local police notified law enforcement throughout the Lower Peninsula, giving a description of the car, and sheriff's officers obtained a search warrant and collected evidence from the home where the rape occurred, Mioduszewski said.

Several hours later, local police were notified by a regional dispatch center in Gaylord that the car was found in Otsego County and that the Ramsey rammed the car into a state trooper's vehicle.

Ramsey drove the victim's car into a field, then ran away and stole a sanitation truck and drove into Crawford County, where he rammed a sheriff's deputy's car head-on, Mioduszewski said.

The deputy got out of his car, approached the cab of the sanitation truck and began firing shots, killing Ramsey, the sheriff said.

State police are investigating the events that happened in Otsego and Crawford counties, Mioduszewski said.